Paradise Hills, New Mexico, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
These conditions suit cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Paradise Hills, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Paradise Hills lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Paradise Hills — the short answer
Paradise Hills, New Mexico: USDA zone 7b, about 220 days between hard freezes, across 655 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~220
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 655 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 7b is Paradise Hills's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Paradise Hills's 220-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Paradise Hills
Each reading below is measured for Paradise Hills itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredParadise Hills runs about 220 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredParadise Hills sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Paradise Hills is in
Paradise Hills sits in the Arizona/New Mexico Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Paradise Hills's own centroid rather than borrowed from Bernalillo County.
What Grows in Paradise Hills
Every plant below cleared Paradise Hills's own zone 7b and its 220-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Mexico profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Paradise Hills?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 2; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 30 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 5 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Paradise Hills
Survey cells within 31 miles of Paradise Hills checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 446 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Paradise Hills
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Paradise Hills. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ALLSUPS 245 AUnderground Storage Tanks · 500 ft
- SCHORR ENT INC DBA PARADISE CHEVRONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- PARADISE HILLS SHOPPING CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- 11N.02E.02.343Nitrate · 2500 ft
- CVS PHARMACY #7319Brownfields · 0.8 mi
- PARADISE HILLS GOLF CLUBUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- WALGREENS #2053Brownfields · 1.1 mi
- WALGREENS #12407Brownfields · 1.1 mi
- CORNER STORE NO 1251Underground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- NM UTILITIESSuperfund · 1.2 mi
- VALVOLINE INSTANT OIL CHANGEBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- WALGREENS #5731Brownfields · 1.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Paradise Hills's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Paradise Hills.
Total Sites
2,151
within ~10 miles of Paradise Hills
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
20 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Paradise Hills
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Paradise Hills
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
Check your specific parcel in Paradise Hills
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Paradise Hills
Everything above resolves to Paradise Hills as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 655 acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at town scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Paradise Hills Average
Paradise Hills Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Paradise Hills
- ●One soil character for all of Paradise Hills
- ●Frost dates read at Paradise Hills's scale: Mar 30 to Nov 5
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Paradise Hills's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Paradise Hills
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Paradise Hills, New Mexico — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Paradise Hills averages can't show:
We read public map data around Paradise Hills — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Paradise Hills average
How we know this about Paradise Hills
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Paradise Hills’s own record; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Paradise Hills
When does frost risk typically end in Paradise Hills?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Paradise Hills typically lands around Mar 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about Apr 20.
When is the first frost in Paradise Hills?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Paradise Hills typically arrives around Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 22, so the watching starts about Oct 6 — about 220 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Paradise Hills?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Paradise Hills sees about 220 frost-free days — roughly Mar 30 through Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 20 to Oct 22, about 185 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Paradise Hills?
The federal record around Paradise Hills is a meaningful one — 2,151 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (920), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Paradise Hills?
From about Oct 6 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Nov 5 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Nov 5. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Paradise Hills's scale — its 7b band and its 220-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Paradise Hills's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Paradise Hills’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Paradise Hills's own scale — its own ~220-day season between 28°F freezes, the 655 acres it covers and 2,151 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Paradise Hills's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Paradise Hills's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 30 and Nov 5 and the ~220-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 2,151 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Paradise Hills, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Paradise Hills's boundary and the 655 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~220-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Paradise Hills's own centroid, the Arizona/New Mexico PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Paradise Hills checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Paradise Hills's 655 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Bernalillo County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Bernalillo County
- The growing challenges every New Mexico grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom New Mexico
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Bernalillo County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Paradise Hills's 655 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Paradise Hills you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 655 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Paradise Hills-wide figureread your own land →